Cuba: America's 51st State?


With Castro gone, will Cuba become America's 51st state?

Posted by David Ignatius on February 19, 2008 1:20 PM

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Kevin Schmidt, Ojai CA :

Better sets your eyes on Lakota first. They have a much better chance of becoming the 51st state if not a separate country completely surrounded by the U.S., assuming Bush/cheney doesn't call in their Blackwater blackshirt thugs:

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/12/20/news/local/doc476a99630633e335271152.txt

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